You then press the room correction button on the app, sit and enjoy a few seconds of white noise, while your phone listens to the same through its microphone. After launching the app, let it ‘find’ the Davone, which takes a matter of seconds. Room correction is deceptively simple and effective. Of course, if it is doing an update, don’t unplug the Meander. Davone also provides automatic OTA (over-the-air) firmware updates, but you’ll probably only notice when the Meander goes quiet for a while. When you have placed the Meander in the best position to limit these problems, there’s a room correction app, but Davone (rightly) recommend using as fine tuning think of this as a Band-Aid, not battlefield surgery. High frequencies in particular rely on ceiling rear and side-wall reflection while I think this is an intrinsically better assumption than thinking reflections are a bad thing and ending up with every room decorated in the last 50 years is too bright, if you have a heavily carpeted room, this might soak up some of its HF and midrange.ĭavone recommends people perform a small amount of pre-placement listening, suggesting a ‘sinewave 100Hz’ file on Spotify to determine standing wave interaction and then placing the Meander in the corner of a room to determine the impact of room gain. The assumption is the speaker is going to sit in a relatively reflective modern living room, not some overdamped, wannabe studio man-cave. If Davone’s clever loudspeaker has a distinct ‘Scandi’ appeal in its looks, its sonic performance is similarly angled. If none of these words make sense to you, find a few like-minded friends, join hands, and try to contact the 21st Century. It talks Google Chromecast and Apple Airplay 2 like a native, is extremely happy living in Spotify Connect land and – in the unlikely event this fails to rattle your cage – the Meander will Bluetooth for fun and profit. Plug it in, wait five minutes, point the Google Home App at something called ‘SM450’, wait a few more minutes, tell it what room it’s in, point it at your wireless network and you are done. The Meander is an active all-in-one wireless loudspeaker. It has that timeless Scandinavian cool to it, a bit like Arne Jacobsen’s mid-20th Century ‘Series 7’, only folded in on itself. A roll of walnut or oak is wrapped around the central core of amps and drive units, and this sits on a pedestal. In asking around, this has been described as an ‘ice cream cone’, a ‘tornado’ and – said without pretence, and in fairness with some accuracy – ‘temaki sushi’. There are a few inverted conical shapes in audio, but none quite so sweeping. Let’s start with the obvious, the Davone Meander’s industrial design. In fairness, Davone still makes conventional active and passive loudspeakers, but in that range, the Meander stands alone. The company has retained a love of curved wood and contrasting drivers hidden behind a black cloth, but the intervening dozen or so years has changed everything. This was a really clever passive floorstanding loudspeaker that looked – from the side at least – a bit like the original Star Trek badge worn by Captain Kirk. Those with good memories might recall an early Davone product the Rithm loudspeaker that we reviewed way back in issue 76. The Danish Davone company is a rare exception to the rule and the Meander shows why. Loudspeakers doubly so – even clever, leading-edge designs – are typically squared-off rectangular or rounded boat-backed boxes. While there are a lot of new audio products out there, few challenge the accepted norms of audio design quite like the Davone Meander.
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